From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
Led by Dr Laurence Brandenberger (University of Zurich). Joint workshop by the Cathie Marsh Institute and the Mitchell Centre.
For those based in or close to Manchester, check this upcoming free of charge, in-person workshop at University of Manchester.
"From Entities to Edges: A Practical Introduction to Knowledge Graphs" by Dr L. Brandenberger, 17/10/25 from 9:30 to 13:00.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-entit...
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Do you want to train in SNA with a bunch of stellar experts? Join the in-person 'M Summer. School on Network Analysis for Social Sciences' by the Mitchell Centre in September in Manchester. 3 courses on Ucinet, SNA in R, and Statistical network models. Deadline June 30, details @ lnkd.in/dGFSXZMq
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Please apply or spread the word! The PhD candidate will be co-supervised by a member of the Mitchell Centre.
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Recommendations for sharing network data and materials | Network Science | Cambridge Core
Recommendations for sharing network data and materials - Volume 12 Issue 4
The Mitchell Centre endorses the new Recommendations for Sharing Network Data and Materials. There is significant and valuable diversity in how social network research is conducted we encourage researchers to consider benefits and concerns to data sharing.
doi.org/10.1017/nws.2024.16
25.03.2025 17:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Jürgen Lerner (University of Konstanz) presenting on relational hyperevent models applied to citation and co-authorship networks in our Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester. Great stuff! @mitchellsna.bsky.social #networks #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis
19.03.2025 16:27 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New paper out by Sjoukje van Deuren, Tomas Diviak, and Arjan Blokland. How does social and geographical proximity affect co-offending among outlaw motorcycle gang members in the Netherlands? Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
14.03.2025 11:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week on Friday, our member Tomas Diviak hosted a small conference called 'Data on Crime and Networks' in Manchester. Researchers from all over the UK participated and all the presentations were very interesting. Let's make this a tradition!
12.03.2025 14:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three types of discourse networks: Affiliation network, actor network, and concept network.
Incrementally changing networks along temporally overlapping moving time windows.
Multidimensional scaling (temporal embedding) of the structural trajectory of the discourse network, heatmap, state dynamics, and cluster silhouette plot for the low-emission zone discourse in Ghent.
Actor networks corresponding to the six identified phases in the empirical case study.
New article published: "When does discursive change happen? Detecting phase transitions in discourse networks of sustainability transitions" with Kimberley Vandenhole and Kristijan Garic in Energy Research & Social Science: doi.org/10.1016/j.er.... #SNA #STS #SustainabilityTransitions #discourse
11.03.2025 13:18 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Full podcast on our www.nature.com/articles/s41... article is now available. How social networks explain multiple preventive behaviour adoption.
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MSc Social Network Analysis - course details (2025 entry) | The University of Manchester
Research. Teaching and learning. Social responsibility. Discover more about The University of Manchester here.
Recruitment for the 2025 Msc in Social Network Analysis is now open! A unique opportunity to train in theories, methods and applications of SNA, with new modules in crime and networks and Complex Social Systems and Simulation. Please help disseminating.
www.manchester.ac.uk/study/master...
20.02.2025 10:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Our paper www-nature-com.manchester.idm.oclc.org/articles/s41... broadcasted in the JH Malaria Minute Podcast.
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Events - School of Social Sciences - The University of Manchester
See what's coming up at the Mitchell Centre and School of Social Sciences. Join our seminar series and see what courses and workshops we run.
Mitchell Online Spring School 2025. Sign up for "Introduction to Social Network Analysis", 3-17 March held remotely on selected days. Faculty: Everett/Crossley/Basov/Agneessens/Bellotti/Diviák/Leifeld/Genkin. Full info linked on our events page: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/mitchell-cen...
14.01.2025 11:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics (Teaching and Research):Oxford Road
We have a #job opening for a #Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social #Statistics at Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Closing date 16/3. Looking across #quantitative #SocialScience, ideally focus on social stats #AcademicJobs #jobs #academia #css #survey #quant
23.01.2025 16:02 — 👍 11 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
Section41 - American Political Science Association (APSA)
Political Networks (Section 41) The purpose of the Political Networks organized section is to promote intellectual exchange among scholars regarding the
Call for nominations for #APSA Political #Networks Section awards 2025. We have 5 awards. More details with award committee contact details on the awards page: apsanet.org/section41. Please spread the word and send us your nominations. #polnet #SNA #NetworkScience #NetworkAnalysis #polisky #polisci
27.01.2025 15:38 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
We have 12 Bicentenary #Research Fellowships (3 yrs duration) for #postdoc within 4 yrs of their #PhD at the University of Manchester: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/internal/Job.... Maybe you want to apply for a placement at the Mitchell Centre for #SNA or Dept of Social #Statistics #SocialScience #job
27.01.2025 16:13 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Researching social challenges by applying cutting-edge quantitative methods. Courses in statistics, data and research skills -
www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/social-statistics/
www.linkedin.com/company/the-university-of-manchester-social-statistics
Professor of Data Literacy in the Social Sciences
Director of Training and User Support, UK Data Service
Department of Social Statistics & Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester
Research: data literacy; health inequalities.
Building greater collaboration & cooperation among SN researchers. Raising the profile of Australian SN research.
https://www.ansna.org.au
We are a leading Cancer Research Institute within The University of Manchester, funded by Cancer Research UK (@cancerresearchuk.org)
https://www.cruk.manchester.ac.uk/
Podcast about social network science hosted by @franciscaortizruiz.bsky.social & @aespinosarada.bsky.social | Bilingual podcast (English and Spanish) https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tejiendoredes
Laboratory for the Computational Analysis of Egonetworks, Social Cohesion, and Exclusion at UAB Barcelona. We conduct mixed-methods research on personal networks, migration, cohesion, exclusion, and polarization: http://coalesce-lab.com/en.
Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science (CEU)
statistician, data science prof. and mother of two dragons
http://mrs.schochastics.net
PhD Student in Social Data Science at University of Mannheim | LLMs and Surveys | georgahnert.de
Professor of Computer Science at University of Konstanz | T1D
Associate Professor in Social Research Methods at Heriot-Watt University
Building tools for R users, these days mostly in Rust 🦀
https://blog.davisvaughan.com
https://github.com/DavisVaughan
Spatial Data Scientist, Doctoral Researcher #HumanMobility #geospatial @mpidr.bsky.social, @imprs-phds.bsky.social, @upf.edu #rspatial #rstats dev of #rstats github.com/rOpenSpain/spanishoddata 🌐: www.ekotov.pro datasci.social/@EgorKotov
https://masalmon.eu/
🧰 #Rstats / research software engineer.
🗒️ Blogger.
📦 Software review editor for @ropensci.
💜 #RLadies.
📈 PhD in statistics.
🍋 Nancy, France (let's say this emoji is a bergamot orange).
I like databases and boats. Co-creator of @duckdb.org, Co-Founder and CEO DuckDB Labs. Professor of Data Engineering at Radboud Universiteit.
#rstats carver, @nflverse.com wizard, pumpkin engineer, easily nerdsniped, he/him. soccer @ teamworks zelus, mentor @dslc.io.
tanho.ca
Editor at Programming Historian | Software Sustainability Institute Fellow | R-Ladies Global Team | PyLadies Valparaíso co-organizer | OLS Research Fellow | Corpus Linguist | Data viz | Open Science | etc.
https://rivaquiroga.cl
PhD student at @gesis.org & @hhu.de, computational linguist, researching (annotation) disagreement and its impact on model behavior.
Scandinasian professor of network science & computational social science
Associate Professor | Relational Sociologist | Social Network Analysis | The Geopolitical Economy of Sport
Substack - https://substack.com/@geosport200?utm_source=about-page
